From the Author

This is meant as a sequel-type thing to my first story, Book Four: The Seine. That story can stand alone, but this one cannot and has to be read after Book Four. Otherwise, it won't make sense, because Javert is supposed to be dead at the point of the story in which this takes place. More comments on the story in my profile.

Tiny Disclaimer: The first section, under "VIII", is an excerpt from the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. I've put it there to discern where my writing, which begins after "IX", is intended to go according to the story-line in the book.

(To recap, that's right around the time Marius is trying to find the man who's saved him from the barricade. He's decided that it was not in fact Monsieur Fauchelevant at the barricade but someone who looked like him, and he has hit a dead end in his main investigation. In the book, he cannot search any farther because the only other witness, that is Javert, is dead. But if Javert had not died, which he does not in this alternate realm of mine, he would be a vital tool by which Marius could discover the identity of the man who helped him.)

BIG SCARY OFFICIAL DISCLAIMER: I don't own what I don't own, and what I own is just that, and if you esteem yourself to judge otherwise I'll come after you before you can send out your lawyer hound dogs on me.

- L'Ael